Following on from our post about Blueprint 2013, anyone interested in the history of photography may like to take a look at ‘The Photography of Victorian Scotland’. This book by Roddy Simpson is described as the first full and coherent introduction to the subject…. Read More ›
2012 has seen the 150th anniversary of the appointment of the first Regius Professor of English at the University of Glasgow. Special Collections were very pleased to welcome delegates attending a recent School of Critical Studies workshop commemorating the life and work of… Read More ›
Given the number of news stories about the jubilee celebrations this weekend and the forthcoming Olympic Games, I thought I’d post this picture: a photograph taken in June 1887, at a village sports day marking Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. Unfortunately,… Read More ›
The University Library Map Collection is holding a sale of duplicate and surplus maps. Coverage includes historical Ordnance Survey mapping at various scales covering many areas of Scotland from the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as modern mapping of… Read More ›
We’ve given our current foyer display in Special Collections a festive twist. Continuing the Cooking up a Story theme of edible and chemical recipes, items include the University Laboratory Christmas Annual from 1869 and the book of a Victorian ’masque’ featuring the characters of Mince-Pie… Read More ›
Over the past year we’ve brought you images from 19th century photograph albums in Special Collections, including pictures of Australia, prize-winning views of Britain, China, Egypt, France, Italy, India, Japan, and the USA. You can see a selection of over 100… Read More ›
A new set of images, showing Japan and China in the 1890s, is now online. Dougan 86 is an intriguing mix of professional photographs and amateur snapshots. Despite the technical flaws and haphazard composition of some of the images, they are an appealing, immediate record of… Read More ›
Another 300 images are now available online from our 19th century photograph albums. The contents of three more albums have been digitised: two feature prize winning images by members of the Amateur Photographic Association (founded in 1861); the third is a fascinating ‘photographers logbook’ owned… Read More ›
The latest 19th century photograph album to be digitised and made available online is Dougan 96. Most of the 175 photographs are the work of Samuel Bourne (1834-1912), who was based in India in the 1860s as part of the… Read More ›
If you’ve seen our previous blog posts you’ll know that one of our current projects is to digitise significant examples from our 19th century photographic collections. We are putting the images online, along with detailed descriptions. This enables us to… Read More ›
